Legends Of Telugu Cinema, NTR and ANR Options

[Abdur Rehman]

I am starting a new post on the Legends of Telugu Cinema NT Rama Rao and A Nageswar Rao. I know the foot fall of this post will be few but still I want to complete my collection and sharing the albums available with me of these two legends. These two need no introduction as far as Telugu Cinema is concerned. They were fortunate enough to have reigned the Golden Period of Telugu Cinema accompanied my Ghantasala's music. Here is the brief biography of these two stars followed by their filmography.

[swarapriya]

(NTR) Vaddante Dabbu (1954)

This movie produced by H.M. Reddy was based on a Marathi play written by G.D. Mudugulkar. Mudugulkar became well known when Shantaram made his internationally acclaimed “Do Aankhen Barah Haath”, released in 1957, was based on his story.

In 1988 a movie with the similar theme to this Telugu film, “Maalamaal”, with Naseeruddin Shah was made. “Vaddante Dabbu” was also remade in Telugu as “Baabaai Abbaai” in 1984 with Rama Rao’s son Bala Krishna as the hero.

The songs of this film were ripped from a DVD. Both the picture quality and the sound quality of the DVD were terrible with lots of footage missing. On the top of it, the DVD contained only five songs. There are at least three more songs, I believe, were there in the original film version.

I tried to clean up the audio as much as I could but there are still some skips that I couldn’t get rid of. My apologies for the poor quality of some of the songs. The table below lists missing songs shown in red italics. If anyone of you have these missing songs or better quality songs, please share. Thanks.

Now for the five songs from this album…